Work/life balance is one of the perks of our profession. Right?
I remember learning that great work/life balance was a benefit of the profession when considering genetic counseling as a career. I now...

By Katie Stoll, MS
Katie Stoll is a genetic counselor in Washington State. She graduated from the Brandeis University training program in 2003 and since that time has held positions in the areas of p...

It’s not everyday that a genetic counselor publishes a novel. In fact, I think that has only happened on one day, with the recent publication of Anybody’s Miracle (Herring River Press) by our genetic ...

BRCA is a hot news item these days. The SCOTUS ruling on the Myriad patent. Angeline Jolie writing in the New York Times about her experience with BRCA testing. A movie about BRCA testing starring Hel...

By LEILA JAMAL, ScM Leila Jamal is a genetic counselor in pediatric neurology and a PhD student in Bioethics and Health Policy. The views expressed here are hers and hers only. As many are now aware,...

Tom Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), roiled the world of psychiatry in a blog post (how very 21st Century of him!). The post concerned the revised Diagnostic and Sta...

When genetic counselors attend family reunions, their unofficial job becomes Namer-of-Relationships. “Keith, you and I are first cousins once-removed. Viola is my great aunt. Margo, you are my mother’...

“Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through.” ― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul Vocabulary is ne...